LORD JELLICOE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18408, 15 June 1925, Page 9

LORD JELLICOE.

——♦ t ANZAC DAY MEMORIES. THE SYMBOL OF UNITY. (kou ous otvx coxeeipospmt.) LONDON, April 30. When the Australian and New Zealand Luncheon Club meets it is usual for. the New Zealanders to be rather overshadowed. "When Lord and Lady Jellicoe were entertained by the Club this week at the Anzae Day lunch, however, New Zealanders more than held their own. But Australia was very well represented, and Sir James Allen, who wa3 chairman, made a special point of referring to the comradeship of the Dominions, which he considered began more seriously, on Gallipoli, and which he hoped would develop in the ] years to come. It waa a tactful refer- i ence, for the cordiality between representatives of the two countries •is more often taken for granted than ex- | pressed. At the conclusion of the lunch the guests stood in- silence for a minute in honour of those who fell in the Gal-j hpoli campaign. The Only Sound Policy. j Proposing the health of • Lord and Lady. Jellicoe, Sir James • Allen said liiat" the landing of the Australians and New. Zealanders .on Gallipoli was _ a symbol of unity which he did not think existed before' they met there, _ but i which ho hoped would be an abiding thing for evermore. In a few days • he, would be setting out for Gallipoli to' attend the unveiling of a monument which, stood on Chunuk Bair, marking the spot to which the New Zealanders ascended, and from which they 'ooked down on the Dardanelles. J The monument, had been designed by a New Zealand artist, and erected by contractors, members of whose firm ' were New Zealanders. On the way he would pass by that other memorial j which was so significant to Australia. < Th» High Commissioner spoke with gratitude of the services rendered to j New Zealand by Lord Jellicoe during the time he was Governor-General, and on a previous occasion when he visited the Dominion and advised them on the question of naval policy. He referred to the reasons for a King's representative as Governor-General of the Domiiiions. "The only sound policy," he said,, ''can be our connexion with his Majesty the King, and the Constitution of ■which he is the head. Without that I fear .-we might drift.- Our safety lies m upholding that constitution, in adhering with thorough loyalty to, the King, and in recognising in our Dominions that we have greater safety and greater privileges in the constitution [ as we know it than if we should adopt those so-called constitutions of later democracies." Imperial Unity. Jord Jellicoe, in reply, said that he was fortunate to have been appointed Governor-General of New Zealand just after the Prince of Wales had visited the Dominion, and his Eoyal Highness had so strengthened the Imperial tie, if that were possible, that'there was really nothing elso in that direction left for the Governor-General to do. He had no real qualifications to be the guest of the club at an Anzac Day celebration in bo far as the war itself was concerned, as it was not his privilge to serve in. association with the forces of the Dominions overseas in any theatre of war, except, of course, with those splendid fellows who came to the Eoyal Navy from the overseas Dominions. In New Zealand'Anzac Day was taken as a celebrition, not only of the.work of New Z'aland oh "the Gallipoli Peninsula or in all the theatres of war, but really as a celebration of the work of his Majesty's Forces in all theatres of war. In Ne\y Zealand it was particularly a day upon which every generation was impressed with the spirit of .self-sacri-fice of those who.'fell during-the Great War, and'that was.tho reason why New Zealanders were particularly anxious that children should take part in the Anzac Day celebrations. Anzac Day was .a day, also, upon which they who belonged to the Eoyal Navy thought of the comradeship established between the Navy and the Forces from Australia and New Zealand, a day on which the Eoyal Navy were filled with admiration at the sight of the men from the Dominions and the Mother- Country achieving the impossible j and a day on which Australia and New Zealand made history for themselves, and won the admiration of the wholo Empire, and the people of Great Britain realised as never 'before the strength and spirit of the men from overseas. ' ' ■ In all theatres of war, whether on sea, whether on land, or in the air, tinmen from overseas proved themselves during the' Great War, and they proved, if it were not known before, that the British Empire—those parts overseas as well' as the Motherland—was strong and ready to .fight for truth, for justice, and for freedom. "We Have No Kegrets." There was an inscripiion on a war memorial in New Zealand which he thought showed the unity of the Empire more than anything else he had seen. On a memorial he had unveiled there, appeared these words:—"We died for' Britain and have no regrets." That showed the real unity of the Empire—that unity which he hoped would never grow weaker than it,was at J the present lime, but would be strengthened as time went on, and would bring to the British Empire the greatness which would be used not in sny spirit of militarism, but to bring to the world the peace which those men who fought on the day which they were celebrating died to maintain.